Chuck Cole wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Mike Miller > > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:12 AM > > > > > > That's all I'm saying - these giants die very slowly. > > Microsoft has 90% > > of the desktop OS market worldwide. People say they are > > dying, but how > > long will it take to get them down to 10% of the world market? If a > > company has 10% of the desktops in the world, I sure wouldn't > > call them > > dead. I hope that I live another 50 years, but I think > > Microsoft is very > > likely to outlive me. > > > > Something I saw claimed that SUSE has over 50% of the desktop share in > Europe and the percentage is growing. Might only be corporate share. > > Probably more like "50% of the _Linux_ market" in Europe... OS rankings published by OneStat.com on 14Aug2006: > The 10 most popular operating systems in the world on the web are: > > 1. Windows XP 86.80% > 2. Windows 2000 6.09% > 3. Windows 98 2.68% > 4. Macintosh 2.32% > 5. Windows ME 1.09% > 6. Linux 0.36% > 7. Windows NT 0.24% > 8. Macintosh Power PC 0.15% ... > Methodology: A global usage share of xx percent > for OS Y means that xx percent of the visitors > of Internet users arrived at sites that are > using one of OneStat.com's services by using the > particular number of OS Y. All numbers mentioned > in the research are averages and all measurements > are normalised to the GMT timezone. Research is > based on a sample of 2 million visitors divided > into 20,000 visitors of 100 countries each day. source: http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox46-operating-systems-market-share.html I'd argue that the methodology used would bias the results toward desktops and away from servers. Further, use of proxies behind firewalls would tend to bias the results as well, as would "normalized timezones" and/or reducing the sample to 20K visitors per country. So take these numbers with a grain of salt. -S